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A Short Poem for Christmas Day
“Xmas Day” by G. K. Chesterton (an early poem) Good news: but if you ask me what it is, I know not; It is a track of feet in the snow, It is a lantern showing a path, It is … Continue reading
Halfway Through
About fifty days ago, I started a journey that I had thought about for some time but ever gotten around to: I started reading Dante’s Divine Comedy. I did it because one of my favorite newsletter-writers, Matthew Lee Anderson, promoted … Continue reading
Wordsworth’s “Old Man Traveling”
While in England, we spent a couple of days in the Lake District, the stomping grounds of William Wordsworth. We spent some time at his house, Rydal Mount, and then walked the Coffin Trail down into Grasmere. We also spent … Continue reading
Chesterton and “the World’s Inn”
The season of Christmas continues for many even as others see it as three-days gone. Here’s another Chesterton poem for the season from The Spirit of Christmas. It’s an interesting thought, really, that places the Christ Child at a particular … Continue reading
Tolkien’s Return of the (Once and Future) King
I’M NOT SURE HOW I WENT A WEEK NOT KNOWING THIS, but J. R. R. Tolkien has a new book coming out in 2013. And it could be a good one. Before Tolkien sat down to write The Hobbit, he … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 